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WMAC (NS)

Wildlife management is an essential part of preserving Northern cultures and environments. In this podcast series researchers, harvesters, scientists and park rangers paint the picture of th...

Episodes

20 of 23 episodes

Kayla Arey: Inuvialuit Scientist on the Yukon North Slope

As an early-career scientist, Kayla has spent multiple summers working with researchers on all kinds of exciting projects, like caribou habi...

27:05May 6, 2020

The North Slope's Muskox Framework

In this episode, developing a management framework for muskox on Yukon's North Slope.

13:35Sep 11, 2017

Making a wildlife management Conservation Plan

A podcast discussing the ways that the Wildlife Management Conservation Plan includes Traditional Knowledge to enhance important land use do...

19:15Sep 9, 2017

Traditional Knowledge Online

Online information is key for sharing information in today's world. Jen Parrot is one of the people using technologies like online mapping t...

29:05Nov 6, 2016

Law and Traditional Knowledge

As a lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law's Aboriginal and Natural Resources law team, Hannah Askew works on issues that affect land, re...

27:19Aug 29, 2016

Youth and Traditional Knowledge

Evelyn Storr speaks about how youth contribute to the work of transmitting traditional knowledge

15:39Aug 29, 2016

The harvester and the scientist

James Pokiak is a harvester from Tuktoyaktuk, and Brenda Parlee teaches and researches at the University of Alberta. These two have worked t...

21:56Aug 29, 2016

A life's work: Bob Delury on The North Slope

Bob Delury was the chief negotiator for the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, the document that laid the legal foundation for Inuvialuit rights, p...

13:30Feb 9, 2016

Inuvialuit and Nanuq

For too long, Inuvialuit Traditional Knowledge has not been included in scientific research about polar bears in the North. Traditional know...

20:43Jan 6, 2016

Getting to best: traditional knowledge + science

This episode, we're talking TK: traditional knowledge, that is. Peter Armitage is an Anthropologist based in St. John's, Newfoundland. He ha...

23:51Mar 30, 2015

Dr. Chris Burn on Knowledge, Wisdom, and Error

Dr. Chris Burn has spent 30 years working in the North, conducting scientific investigations into permafrost, and developing relationships w...

27:50Sep 6, 2013

Painting the full picture:Traditional Knowledge and scientific research

The rich biodiversity of the North Slope attracts scientific researchers every year. Incorporating traditional knowledge into scientific dat...

12:27Jun 5, 2013

Work it: best practices for wildlife co-management challenges

Managing natural resources in the North effectively means that many voices need to be at the table when decisions are made. Gregor Gilbert i...

14:37Mar 14, 2013

Land Claims, the law, and co-management: an interview with Nigel Bankes

Over the last 35 years, Aboriginal land claims have had great influence on the way peopel and industry use Northern landscapes. In this podc...

09:52Feb 28, 2013

Taqulik Hepa on the value of subsistence hunting

Many Inupiak in Alaska depend on subsistence hunting to feed their families. Taqulik Hepa believes that the benefits of hunting for subsiten...

09:25Jan 23, 2013

Nunatsiavut: building on co-management

Northern Labrador is home to Nunatsiavut, Canada's newest land claim, and the first land claim to incorporate self government. Co-management...

12:46Nov 26, 2012

Weights and measures: What is balanced development for Canada's North?

Often land that has great value for traditional uses such as subsistence hunting is also land that has great potential for resource developm...

19:24Nov 8, 2012

How It Looks From here - Ernest Pokiak from Tuktoyaktuk

Ernest Pokiak’s father, Bertram Pokiak, was one of the influential Inuvialuit voices that worked to negotiate the Inuvialuit Final Agreement...

17:51Apr 17, 2012

How we got here from there: Ivvavik, Herschel, and a brief history of the Wildlife Management Advisory Council (North Slope)

The co-management model of wildlife management planning is in use across Canada's North. In this podcast the chair of the Wildlife Managemen...

17:54Mar 19, 2012

How I got here: sharing knowledge from the sea ice

In this podcast, respected hunter Randal Pokiak talks about the challenges harvesters face in participating in wildlife decision-making proc...

53:37Mar 19, 2012